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TRAINING OF FIELD STAFF:

Delailed instruction manuals for Census Master Trainers (CMTs), for Enumerators
and immediate Supervisors were prepared with detail of every data item to be
collected in the census. As the first step, CMTs were trained at the ACO office
regarding concepts,. piocedures, methodology, household sample'selection
techniques, field problems and their possible solutions to control the non-sampling
errors. They were made fully conversant to cope with any type of field problem
during census enumeration.
After district meetings, one CMT was placed at each district headquarter for the
entire duration of field operations to train the enumerators, supervise the
enumeration work, select the sample of households within the Mouza and to provide
technical guidance to the enumerators as well as supervisors. The CMTs were also
required io ensure in time commencement of census, its completeness, its
quality,and to arrange the despatch of completed census documents to the
Agricuttural Census Organization, Lahore. They were also r:equired to b9 in contact
witn tne district administration time to time to discuss and resolve administrative
issues.
An extensive training programme maQe the enumeratorq fully..conversant with the
basic idea of every item included in the'census questionnaire and equipped them to
frame and re=frame suitable questions for eliciting the requisite information.The
enumerators and their immediate supervisors were intensively trained in batches of
approximately 30 each in'census methodology, census forms and the concepts
involved a:t iheir respective Tehsil headquarters by CMTs specially trained and
deputed for the purpose. The training session at District / Agency / FR headquarter
was inaugurated by the concerned Dco / EDO(R) / DO(R) l!"pYlY commissioner I
politicat Agent / Assistant Political Agent. However, at the Tehsil level the training
sessions irere chaired by the DDOs(R) / Assistant Commissioners /Tehsildrrs i
political Tehsildars. The three-day training programme for. enumerators and
supervisors included classroom lectures for the first two days of training, .and a third
day in the field for practical work followed by review, and finally tne na1$i1g over.of
tfre btanX forms to be used by the enumerators / supervisors. ln addition to the
theoretical and practical training, the enumerators were required to fill-in two main
census questionnair.es (Form-2) independently during the listing operation (filling of
Form-J) and show these to the CMT for checking. The enumerators were give
thego-ahead signal for enumeration by the CMT only after he was satisfied about the
practical competency of the enumerators.

FIELD OPERATION AND SUPERVISION:
lmmediately after training, the enumeratorg proceeded to their assigned Mouzas. In
setled areis of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa & Punjab provinces and the whole of Sindh
province, where a three-stage sample design was adopted, they first prepared
sketch maps of the Mouzas showing the location of houses and important
landmarks. Then, the enumerators prepared the sampling frame / list of households
by numbering each and every residential structure within the boundaries of that
Mouza and entered the names of the head of households along with area operated
on the listing sheet (Form-1). Area owned and area rented-in on cash or share
cropping bas-is by the household was also recorded. The numbers put on prominent
residential structures were marked on the sketch map showing location of
households in a street or within the boundaries of that Mouza with important
landmarks. At the same time, they also identified those households'which were
within the limits of MCH. Afteruvards the en_umerators brought those lists to the CMT
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